OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Science Research and Methods is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Roll-call voting under random seating assignment	79
Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Party-Strategic Measure for Predicting Policy and Politics – CORRIGENDUM	52
Can autocratic power influence the media in democracies? Evidence from China's expulsion of American journalists	52
Bargaining outcomes and success in EU economic governance reforms	46
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy	44
Last step to the throne: the conflict between rulers and their successors	42
Do winners spread more words? Factional competition and local media reports on corruption investigation in China	36
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis	35
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings	33
Taking dyads seriously	25
Divisive jobs: three facets of risk, precarity, and redistribution	23
After defeat: how governing parties respond to electoral loss	23
Trading integrity for competence? The public's varying preferences for bureaucratic types across government levels in China	21
Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States	21
K Street on main: legislative turnover and multi-client lobbying	20
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy	20
Estimating public opinion from surveys: the impact of including a “don't know” response option in policy preference questions	19
Belief in Territorial Indivisibility and Public Preferences for Dispute Resolution – CORRIGENDUM	18
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections	12
Changing stereotypes of partisans in the Trump Era	11
How to avoid incorrect inferences (while gaining correct ones) in dynamic models	11
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation	11
Political communication in the real world: evidence from a natural experiment in Germany	10
How should we estimate inverse probability weights with possibly misspecified propensity score models?	9
Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities	9

Foreign aid, FDI and the personalization of power in autocracies	9
Happy birthday: you get to vote!	8
Pour (tear) gas on fire? Violent confrontations and anti-government backlash	8
The concreteness of social knowledge and the quality of democratic choice	7
Do citizens vote against incumbents who permit local immigration? Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift	7
Campaign communication and legislative leadership	7
Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany	7
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties	6
Coup-proofing: latent concept and measurement	6
(Mis)perception of party congruence and satisfaction with democracy	6
Asymmetric flooding as a tool for foreign influence on social media	6
RAM volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	6
Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
What's in a buzzword? A systematic review of the state of populism research in political science	6
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Trust in government and American public opinion toward foreign aid	5
A careful consideration of CLARIFY: simulation-induced bias in point estimates of quantities of interest	5
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland	5
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism	5
RAM volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–2021	5
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers	5
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians	5
Opportunistic rebel tactics in civil war: Evidence from Colombia	5
Farming then fighting: agricultural idle time and armed conflict	5
The Supreme Court as an electoral issue: evidence from three studies	4
Surrounded and threatened: how neighborhood composition reduces ethnic voting through intimidation	4
Through the ideology of the beholder: how ideology shapes perceptions of partisan groups	4
Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism	4
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation	4
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States	3
When does education increase political participation? Evidence from Senegal	3
Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records	3
Explaining women's political underrepresentation in democracies with high levels of corruption	3
A typology of substitution: weather, armed conflict, and maritime piracy	3
Indirect rule and public goods provision: evidence from colonial India	3
Affective polarization and the destabilization of core political values	3
Why do majoritarian systems benefit the right? Income groups and vote choice across different electoral systems	3
Introducing ICBe: an event extraction dataset from narratives about international crises	3
A randomized experiment evaluating survey mode effects for video interviewing	3
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation	3
RAM volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem	3
The fall of Trump: mobilization and vote switching in the 2020 presidential election	3
International inequality and demand for redistribution in the Global South	3
Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine	3
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements	3
Detecting true relationships in time series data with different orders of integration	3
Incentivized choice in large-scale voting experiments	3

Inclusive meritocracy: ability and descriptive representation among Danish politicians	3
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office	3
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict	3
Traditional institutions in Africa: past and present	3
Does ideology influence hiring in China? evidence from two randomized experiments	3
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM	2
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed	2
Presidential policymaking, 1877–2020	2
The American public's attitudes over how judges use legal principles to make decisions	2
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea	2
Decomposing the source of the gender gap in legislative committee service: evidence from US states	2
Public opinion on welfare state recalibration in times of austerity: evidence from survey experiments	2
Perceived beneficiaries and support for the globalization of higher education: a survey experiment on attitudes toward international students	2
Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland	2
The variation in firm lobbying by political regime: can it explain trade and currency policy differences?	2
Political shocks and asset prices	2
Can political alignment reduce crime? Evidence from Chile	2
Setting the tone: the diffusion of moral and moral-emotional appeals across political and public discourse	2
Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France	2
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States	2
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text	2
From principles to practice: methods to increase the transparency of research ethics in violent contexts	2
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Energy versus safety: unilateral action, voter welfare, and executive accountability	2
The unsettled effect of physical height on political preferences	2
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text	2
The role of hyperparameters in machine learning models and how to tune them	2
How and when candidate race affects inferences about ideology and group favoritism	2
The politics of accountability in Supreme Court nominations: voter recall and assessment of senator votes on nominees	2
Am I obliged to vote? A regression discontinuity analysis of compulsory voting with ill-informed voters	1
Persistence of voice pitch bias against policy differences	1
Point break: using machine learning to uncover a critical mass in women's representation	1
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945	1
Out of order: specification check sequencing in Cox models	1
Two terms of endearment? Incumbent-party performance in US presidential elections	1
The policy basis of group sentiments	1
Driving turnout: the effect of car ownership on electoral participation	1
What drives perceptions of partisan cooperation?	1
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies	1
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th	1
The national network of US state legislators on Twitter	1
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China	1
Coalition inclusion probabilities: a party-strategic measure for predicting policy and politics	1
Experience, institutions, and candidate emergence: the political career returns to state legislative service	1
Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting	1
Income, education, and policy priorities	1
Persistent unilateral action	1
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
The unequal effect of economic development on perceived labor market risks and welfare	1
Digital literacy and online political behavior	1
Understanding the impact of the 2018 voter ID pilots on turnout at the London local elections: A synthetic difference-in-difference approach	1
Justice-level heterogeneity in certiorari voting: US Supreme Court October terms 1939, 1968, and 1982	1
The political consequences of technological change that benefits low-skilled workers	1
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity	1
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats	1
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments	1
Trade openness, job sectors, and social policy preferences: evidence from China	1
What makes policy complex?	1
Estimating the effect of intergroup contact over years: evidence from a youth program in Israel	1
Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state	1
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?	1
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged	1
The impact of university attendance on partisanship	1
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India	1
The micro-task market for lemons: data quality on Amazon's Mechanical Turk	1
Are local policy attitudes distinct?	1
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs	1
Self-reported political ideology	1
Can citizens guess how other citizens voted based on demographic characteristics?	1
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China	1
Does a universal basic income affect voter turnout? Evidence from Alaska	1
Can political speech foster tolerance of immigrants?	1
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged – ERRATUM	1
A Bayesian multifactor spatio-temporal model for estimating time-varying network interdependence	1
Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico	1
Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties	1
A spatiotemporal analysis of NATO member states' defense spending: how much do allies actually free ride?	1
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?	1
A foot out the door: what drives bureaucratic exit into lobbying careers?	1